2023 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 6 Demographics

Health Care Access

Was there a time in the past 12 months when you needed to see a doctor but could not because you could not afford it?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,082 430 10.7 9.5-12.1 3,652 89.3 87.9-90.5
Region 6 403 45 9.5 6.6-13.4 358 90.5 86.6-93.4
GENDER
Male 185 19 9.1 5.0-15.9 166 90.9 84.1-95.0
Female 218 26 9.8 6.2-15.1 192 90.2 84.9-93.8
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 200 20 10.6 6.3-17.4 180 89.4 82.6-93.7
Non-Hispanic Black 97 11 7.1 3.6-13.3 86 92.9 86.7-96.4
Other 97 13 10.1 4.7-20.5 84 89.9 79.5-95.3
AGE
18-44 172 24 11.4 6.8-18.5 148 88.6 81.5-93.2
45-64 127 19 11.8 6.9-19.6 108 88.2 80.4-93.1
65+ 97 *** *** *** 95 97.6 90.8-99.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 122 19 13.0 7.4-21.9 103 87.0 78.1-92.6
Some Post-H.S. 130 15 8.9 5.1-15.1 115 91.1 84.9-94.9
College Graduate 150 11 4.5 2.3- 8.5 139 95.5 91.5-97.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 136 27 15.0 9.2-23.5 109 85.0 76.5-90.8
$50,000+ 179 *** *** *** 169 94.5 88.9-97.3
Don't know/Not Sure 84 *** *** *** 76 92.4 82.8-96.8

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2023 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2023 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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